Lodu Victor Jacob
2024 Obama Foundation Africa Leader
Co-Founder and Vice President, Impact Driven Mission
South Sudan
Lodu Victor Jacob is the co-founder and vice president at Impact Driven Mission, an organization committed to a peaceful, united, and transformed South Sudan. He creates opportunities that foster social cohesion through sport. Lodu also equips youth to become advocates of peace and to champion unity, diversity, resilience, and transformation in their respective communities. Through the formation of peace and leadership clubs, he has reached more than 2,000 youth refugee leaders with messages of hope and healing. Lodu’s leadership in peacebuilding work with South Sudanese youth refugees has supported critical skills and spaces for young leaders to contribute towards peacebuilding.
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